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COVID-19: Remain where you are, Plateau urges citizens

Dr Nimkong Lar, the Plateau State Commissioner for
Health, has called on citizens living outside the state to remain where
they are until the threat being posed by coronavirus is over.

The commissioner made this call at a three-day training
course, organised for health workers on clinical case management of
COVID-19 on Friday in Jos.

According to Lar, the state has yet to record any
confirmed case, but the influx of people from other parts of the country
into the state has been threatening the safety measures meant to
contain the spread of the virus.

He, therefore, called on the people of the state living
outside the state to remain where they are, pending when a lasting
solution to contain the pandemic is discovered.

“Currently, we don’t have any confirmed case in Plateau, but the porous nature of our borders is a serious challenge.

“People come in and out at will, even with the government directives on the ground.

“We want to plead with our people living outside the
state to remain where they are until we are able to totally contain the
spread of the virus.

“One of the easiest ways of spreading this virus is
moving from one location to another, and so, if people will remain in
one place, we shall overcome it, with ease,” he said.

Lar assured that the state had put in place five
isolation centres as part of the measures to contain the spread of the
dreaded disease.

He also said a testing centre, domiciled at the National
Veterinary Research Institute, Vom, was recently approved for the
state.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the
state has five isolation centres at Jos University Teaching Hospital,
Plateau Specialist Hospital and Bingham University Teaching Hospital.

Others include General Hospitals Pankshin and Shendam (NAN)

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